Technology for Shipbuilding Affordability

Award Information

Agency: Department of Defense	Branch: Navy	Award ID: 64972	Program Year/Program: 2004 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number: N031-1396	Solicitation Year: N/A	Solicitation Topic Code: N/A	Solicitation Number: N/A

Small Business Information: VEXCEL CORP.
1690 38th Street Boulder, CO 80301
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Woman-Owned: No

Minority-Owned: No

HUBZone-Owned: No

Phase 2: Fiscal Year: 2004

Title: Technology for Shipbuilding Affordability

Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY

Contract: N00014-04-C-0145

Award Amount: $449,789.00

Abstract:
Developing shape-from-video based software tools will enable US shipyards to create cost effective three-dimensional (3D) models of shipboard components (for engineering applications and/or virtual reality simulators) while ships are still in service ? significantly shortening overall repair cycle time. This approach makes use of the massively redundant information in a video stream to support the automation and simplification of the 3D modeling task. Conceptually there would be only three steps required: - take a hand held video of the area to be modeled, - identify one or more standard 3D catalog items in the video stream (to provide scale and orientation information), - dump the 3D model into the required CAD environment (ShipConstructorTM, CATIATM, AutoCADTM, FactoryCADTM, and MicroStationTM are all currently supported)

Principal Investigator:
Steve Soule
Senior Software Engineer
3035830276
steve.soule@vexcel.com

Business Contact:
Paul Bodnar
CFO
3035830225
paul.bodnar@vexcel.com

Small Business Information at Submission:

VEXCEL CORP.
1690 38th Street Boulder, CO 80301

EIN/Tax ID: 840992830

DUNS: N/A

Number of Employees:

Woman-Owned: No

Minority-Owned: No

HUBZone-Owned: No